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<h3 style="font-style: italic;">If you like Calico, you'll love Calico Enterprise!</h3>
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      <td>High performance scalable pod networking</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Advanced IP Address Management</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Kubernetes network policy</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Advanced network policies</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>L7 rules in policy integrated with Istio/Envoy</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Direct infrastructure peering without overlay</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Hierarchical network policy</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>FQDN / DNS based network policy</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Rich graphical user interface</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Network visualization and troubleshooting</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Network policy recommendations</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Network policy preview and staging</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>RBAC controls with audit trail &amp; continuous compliance</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Monitoring with alerting on security violations</td>
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      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Threat defense (suspicious activity, anomaly detection)</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Multi-cluster management with multi-cloud federation</td>
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      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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